Canal View Room 6
...With 2 English Leather Chairs,
...an Art Deco Table from the 1920's from the famous CAFÉ SLAVIA in Prague, which KAFKA might have sat at...
...a Valuable Oriental Carpet,
...Curtains from Italy,
...a 19th Century Guiltwood and Gesso Mirror from France
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Canal View Room 6
...humble hommage à Constantinople...with a guilded ceiling,a gold leaf plated cupboard,handcrafted by a Dutch artisan,an Art Deco bed cover and an exact replica of an original Tiffany lamp and
...a 19th century giltwood and gesso mirror from France.
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Canal View Room 6
...A beautiful and valuable handcrafted marquetry box concealing a surprising secret.
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Canalside room 6
Italian beauty in the BATHROOM
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Canal View Room 6
L'IMAGINATION AU POUVOIR or
Daydreaming in Amsterdam
of Old World Charm,at the HISTORICAL table of Café Slavia...of KAFKA's PRAGUE...Baudelaire's Paris (Le mythe de la grande ville)...the Splendor of Dresden (mon amour: "in blinder Liebe zugetan")...and "Constantinople" ("City of the World's Desire"...and Cultural Capital of Europe 2010).
The famous Grand CAFÉ SLAVIA, located across from the National Theatre, opened in 1881 (the same year as the theatre) and became a meeting place of artists and intellectuals, including former president Václav Havel who was a frequent customer during his dissident years. The café was closed in 1991 due to ownership issues, and reopened six years later, having been restored to its 1930s Art Deco look. It is a nice place to go for coffee and dessert at the end of the day or after a night at the theatre.
Literature needs REJOICE! As well as being able to eat at Milan Kundera's favourite cafe, you can dine with another ghost of Prague's literary past, FRANZ KAFKA, AT CAFÉ SLAVIA (former Czech president Vaclav Havel used to frequent the Slavia in his dissident days as well). Opened in 1881, the cafe has historically been the hangout of the intellectually hip, attracting writers and their groupies, as well as dissidents and intellectuals during communist times, to its Art Deco halls.
Franz Kafka, born in Prague in 1883, came from a Jewish family who spoke German as their native tongue (as many people did in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), though he also spoke near-perfect Czech and some French. Although he didn’t publish much during his lifetime (almost all of his works were published posthumously), and he always worked a regular job (as a legal clerk and insurance officer), Kafka considered himself a writer first and foremost, with his “proper” jobs earning his survival and serving as masks behind which he could hide his true literary persona. Thoroughly immersed in the bureaucratic quagmire of the insurance company world, the alienation and absurdity of bureaucracy often entered his writing, particularly in The Trial.
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Canal View Room 6
...View from the window
PLEASE NOTE
Amsterdam is the beautiful and busy (YOUNG!!) capital of The Netherlands, and neither a dreamy village in the middle of an enchanted forest, nor a kind of sleepy suburbia...
If you are A LIGHT SLEEPER, please keep this in mind, if you would like to reserve a CANAL VIEW ROOM,which is also a "street view room":
Your eyes will be absolutely pleased of what you get to see at daytime,your ears might have some doubts at night,especially if you are struggling with a jetlag...
Although the hotel is on a quiet street,YOU CANNOT SLEEP WITH OPEN WINDOWS (as in no big city) - certainly not on hot weekends in the summer.Most probably,you do not expect this anyway...
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